Apple and Other Accessibility This is a great site with audio demonstrations. Practice using you new App with VoiceOver following allow with the audio directions playing ing the background. iPad in Education Workshops This site has App suggestions and workshops for using the iPadnin Education. IPodsibilities This is great website that discusses Apple iOS Apps, reviews, and more.
Learn about the free, built-in assistive technology and accessibility features in Mac OS X.
Window 7 Built-in Accessibility Summary
Windows 2007 has now caught up with Apple Systems by offering free software to enable universal access. In prior versions, windows listed several adaptations under programs, accessories and accessibility. Under the accessibility options, the user was able to utilize the magnifier, accessibility wizard and narrator. If you're looking for these options in Windows 2007, you're looking in the wrong place. New accessibility options are now listed under the sub-heading Ease of Use. You can locate the Ease of Use menu by entering the phrase listed in the search bar.
Ease of Use Features Screen magnification Features: full screen, lens, locked or dock view, and split screen Note: In addition to the magnifier, Windows 2007 has a complete menu to select your visual settings and it assists you in identifying the clearest test image for your monitor. Narrator: (speech output) Features: Read dialog boxes and menus, key echo while typing, reads the title bar, announces active and inactive windows on the task bar. Note: The narrator is a simple speech program, it does not read documents or text from the internet. It cannot be compared to Voiceover by Apple Systems. If you need to have text read, you need to utilize the text-speech software.
Speech Dictation: Operate the Computer hands free with Voice Recognition Text to Speech: Have the computer read back documents On-screen Keyboard with Word Prediction: Features: utilize a switch/joystick visually/auditory scan, modify the speed of the scan, and change visual display option Windows 7 Magnifier Reviewed Just a page with picture details on how to operate the Windows 7 Magnifier options.
President Obama has signed into law S.3304, the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. This new law will make it easier for people who are deaf or blind to access the Internet, smart phones, television programming and other communications and video technologies. The law will also make sure that emergency information is accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision. Read Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowsk's statementabout the new law. For more information read What S.3304 Does For Us from the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology.
Discover the accessibility capabilities of various smartphones, including out-of-the-box functionality, assistive technology software and useful Apps. Smartphones discussed include Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Nokia, and more...
The Eyes-Free Program is an open source Google Project that is focusing on creating apps for the Andriod market to give visually impaired and blind users, access to cell phones. I came across the name in Google Apps, so I decided to download a few apps onto my Evo Phone. I started by downloading Walky Talky, Intersection Explorer and TalkBack, thinking these two Apps would be helpful for Orientation and Mobility lessons. TalkBack is basically a screen reader for your Andriod Phone and you need it for the Google Maps Navigator.
WalkyTalky -WalkyTalky is an Android application that speaks the address of nearby locations as you pass them. It also provides more direct access to the walking directions component from Google Maps
With WalkyTalky installed, you can:
Launch WalkyTalky to specify a destination.
Either specify the destination by address, or pick from favorites or recently visited locations.
An in addition to spoken walking directions.
Hear street addresses as you walk by.
These spoken updates, in conjunction with the walking directions that are spoken by Google Maps, help me navigate through the physical world as efficiently as I navigate the Internet.
Intersection Explorer
1.2.1 How It Works
Intersection Explorer starts off at the user's current location.
One can change the start position by entering an address, to do this, press menu and click on new location.
Once the map has loaded, touching the screen speaks the streets at the nearest intersection.
Moving ones finger along a compass direction, and then tracing a circle speaks each street at that intersection, along with the associated compass direction.
Presence of streets is qued by a slight vibration, as one traces the circle.
Lifting up the finger, when on a street, will navigate to the next intersection, speak the distance moved and finally speak the newly arrived intersection.
Summary -Altogether, Intersection Explorer and WalkyTalky, in conjunction with Walking Directions from Google Maps, bring a new level of access to my physical world. I use these tools in conjunction with other Map-based applications such as the Places Directory on Android, this is another application from the Google Maps team that works fluently with TalkBack on Android to help me find nearby attractions or other locations of interest.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has developed a free downloadable application (app) to assist people who are blind and visually impaired denominate U.S. currency. The app is called EyeNote™. It is a mobile device app for Apple iPhone (3G, 3Gs, 4), and the 4th Generation iPod Touch and iPad2 platforms. EyeNote™ uses image recognition technology to determine a note’s denomination. This link opens a PDF document. For more information visitEyeNote.gov.
EyeNote
EyeNote is a mobile device application to denominate Federal Reserve Notes (U.S. paper currency) as an aid for the blind or visually impaired to increase accessibility.
TECHMATRIX is a great website for researching and comparing Assistive Technology. This sight has a diverse search engine which allows the user to filter products using multiple criteria. Once the search is completed this sight will also allow you to check several products and compare them side by side. I feel like I'm shopping for a new cell phone with all the possible options but its great.
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Apple and Other Accessibility This is a great site with audio demonstrations. Practice using you new App with VoiceOver following allow with the audio directions playing ing the background.
iPad in Education Workshops This site has App suggestions and workshops for using the iPadnin Education.
IPodsibilities This is great website that discusses Apple iOS Apps, reviews, and more.
Target Center: Discovery Series This a a website that has online demonstration or web seminars for learning about technology. For a full listing of there online Discovery Series Archive visit their page. http://www.dm.usda.gov/oo/target/discovery/archive.html
Discover How Built-in Accessibility Compares Between Windows 7 and Mac OS X Part 1: Windows 7
Learn about the free, built-in assistive technology and accessibility features in Windows 7.Discover How Built-in Accessibility Compares Between Windows 7 and Mac OS X Part 2: Mac OS X
Learn about the free, built-in assistive technology and accessibility features in Mac OS X.Window 7 Built-in Accessibility Summary
Windows 2007 has now caught up with Apple Systems by offering free software to enable universal access. In prior versions, windows listed several adaptations under programs, accessories and accessibility. Under the accessibility options, the user was able to utilize the magnifier, accessibility wizard and narrator. If you're looking for these options in Windows 2007, you're looking in the wrong place. New accessibility options are now listed under the sub-heading Ease of Use. You can locate the Ease of Use menu by entering the phrase listed in the search bar.Ease of Use Features
Screen magnification Features: full screen, lens, locked or dock view, and split screen
Note: In addition to the magnifier, Windows 2007 has a complete menu to select your visual settings and it assists you in identifying the clearest test image for your monitor.
Narrator: (speech output) Features: Read dialog boxes and menus, key echo while typing, reads the title bar, announces active and inactive windows on the task bar.
Note: The narrator is a simple speech program, it does not read documents or text from the internet. It cannot be compared to Voiceover by Apple Systems. If you need to have text read, you need to utilize the text-speech software.
Speech Dictation: Operate the Computer hands free with Voice Recognition
Text to Speech: Have the computer read back documents
On-screen Keyboard with Word Prediction: Features: utilize a switch/joystick visually/auditory scan, modify the speed of the scan, and change visual display option
Windows 7 Magnifier Reviewed Just a page with picture details on how to operate the Windows 7 Magnifier options.
Smartphone Accessibility
President Obama Signs Twenty-First Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2010 - October 8
President Obama has signed into law S.3304, the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. This new law will make it easier for people who are deaf or blind to access the Internet, smart phones, television programming and other communications and video technologies. The law will also make sure that emergency information is accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision. Read Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowsk's statementabout the new law. For more information read What S.3304 Does For Us from the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology.Discover Smartphone Accessibility
Discover the accessibility capabilities of various smartphones, including out-of-the-box functionality, assistive technology software and useful Apps. Smartphones discussed include Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Nokia, and more...Andriod Apps for VI and Blind
Eyes-Free Program
The Eyes-Free Program is an open source Google Project that is focusing on creating apps for the Andriod market to give visually impaired and blind users, access to cell phones. I came across the name in Google Apps, so I decided to download a few apps onto my Evo Phone. I started by downloading Walky Talky, Intersection Explorer and TalkBack, thinking these two Apps would be helpful for Orientation and Mobility lessons. TalkBack is basically a screen reader for your Andriod Phone and you need it for the Google Maps Navigator.WalkyTalky - WalkyTalky is an Android application that speaks the address of nearby locations as you pass them. It also provides more direct access to the walking directions component from Google Maps
With WalkyTalky installed, you can:- Launch WalkyTalky to specify a destination.
- Either specify the destination by address, or pick from favorites or recently visited locations.
- An in addition to spoken walking directions.
- Hear street addresses as you walk by.
These spoken updates, in conjunction with the walking directions that are spoken by Google Maps, help me navigate through the physical world as efficiently as I navigate the Internet.Intersection Explorer
1.2.1 How It WorksSummary - Altogether, Intersection Explorer and WalkyTalky, in conjunction with Walking Directions from Google Maps, bring a new level of access to my physical world. I use these tools in conjunction with other Map-based applications such as the Places Directory on Android, this is another application from the Google Maps team that works fluently with TalkBack on Android to help me find nearby attractions or other locations of interest.
http://eyes-free.blogspot.com/2010/10/walking-about-with-talking-android.html?
EyeNote - iPhone, iPad, iPod App for Blind and Visually Impaired
Bureau of Engraving & Printing Launches App to Help Blind & Visually Impaired Individuals Denominate U.S. Currency
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has developed a free downloadable application (app) to assist people who are blind and visually impaired denominate U.S. currency. The app is called EyeNote™. It is a mobile device app for Apple iPhone (3G, 3Gs, 4), and the 4th Generation iPod Touch and iPad2 platforms. EyeNote™ uses image recognition technology to determine a note’s denomination. This link opens a PDF document. For more information visitEyeNote.gov.iPad iPod Touch and iPhone Apps for Visually Impaired and Blind
TECHMATRIX is a great website for researching and comparing Assistive Technology. This sight has a diverse search engine which allows the user to filter products using multiple criteria. Once the search is completed this sight will also allow you to check several products and compare them side by side. I feel like I'm shopping for a new cell phone with all the possible options but its great.
Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch CTH460 - Updated Review 6/1/10
Pre-order now. Shipment within the US should begin in July 2012, internationally in September.
Teacher, parent and child-tested technology lets you connect using a digitalscreen and audio output. Now Everyone can share the learning experience.
HEAR THE WORDS. SEE THE LETTERS.
CONNECT THE DOTS.
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